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The View From Your Recession
A reader writes: I'm a 10 year vet of the television industry getting mostly steady work since I started in scripted dramatic television. What the writers' strike hasn't done to destroy the optimism or "high end money" for creative types, the global economic crisis has. More people ...
Obama On AIG Anger, Recession, Challenges
Obama On AIG Anger, Recession, Challenges
cbsnews.com — Also Tells 60 Minutes How He Is Adjusting To The Job, And His Family To The White... House Comments Comments 1391 | Page 4 of 6 March 22, 2009 (CBS) One of those difficult decisions is Afghanistan. Asked what that mission should be, Obama said, "Making ... (more) Obama On AIG Anger, Recession, Challenges
Recession Puts a Major Strain On Social Security Trust Fund
washingtonpost.com — Comments that include profanity or personal attacks or other inappropriate comments or material will be removed from... the site. Additionally, entries that are unsigned or contain "signatures" by someone other than the actual author will be removed. ... (more) Recession Puts a Major Strain On Social Security Trust Fund
Recession Villains: Who Will Be Blamed Next?
abcnews.go.com — PHOTO With the economy mired in a 15-month long recession, government bailout programs marred by fraud, executives... at ailing banks collecting million-dollar bonuses, and investors irate with money lost to ponzi schemes (more) Recession Villains: Who Will Be Blamed Next?
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Intelligence May Not Be A Survival Characteristic
Winds of Change.NET — Andrew Sullivan today features a comment from one of his readers that I think nails down virtually everything wrong with the modern proto-intelligensia. Go read the whole whiny thing, but note the nut graf here: ...

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The View From Your Recession
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com 6/9/2009 — A reader writes: I live in suburban Orange County, California, which is great place for my family and the weather can't be beat. I grew up near Edinburgh, Scotland and moved to the US in the late '80s, when the UK was just a mess. ...
The GOP And The Recession
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com 3/7/2009 — They come up with a plan: a spending freeze ! And no, this isn't some nutcase. It's John Herbert Hoover Boehner!
Scenes from the recession
boston.com 3/19/2009 — The state of our global economy: foreclosures, evictions, bankruptcies, layoffs, abandoned projects, and the people and industries caught in the middle. It can be difficult to capture financial pressures in photographs, but here a few recent glimpses ...
What is a depression?
calculatedriskblog.com 3/11/2009 — It seems like the "D" word is everywhere. And that raises a question: what is a depression? Although there is no formal definition, most economists agree it is a prolonged slump with a 10% or more decline in real GDP. Yesterday I heard an analyst say ...
Have we seen the worst of this recession?
theloop21.com 4/8/2009 — This is a poll question and i think it helps us understand what people are expecting for the near future.
Recession means hard times for struggling artists (AP)Yahoo! News: Politics News 3/26/2009
AP - Artists, too, are singing the blues in these economic hard times, telling Congress that layoffs and art organization closures are hurting communities across the country.
Older workers, hurt by recession, seek new jobs (AP)Yahoo! News: Politics News 3/31/2009
AP - In these scary economic times, older workers are putting off their retirement and hanging on to a paycheck.